Child prostitution in America in an under diagnosed epidemic and the first step to treating it is awareness.
I was first introduced to sex trafficking at the age of thirteen. I was watching television and while flipping through channels, I found myself on BBC gazing at children as young as five years old asking sexual tourists to ‘pick them’. I thought this was some sort of joke. Could this really be happening under our noses? How did I not know about this before? Yet most of all, I wondered what was being done to stop this.
In my sophomore year here in high school I was asked the question what I would like to study for the year, something that would hold my attention, something that would possibly change my outlook on life. My mind zoomed back to that documentary set in Cambodia, and the girls, my age, praying for sex. There was no question of what I wanted to learn more about.
Since them I have learned an exponential amount of information about this heinous crime happening around our world, INCLUDING in the United States. Slowly I began to answer the questions I had asked a year before.
My studies began with finding background information, a foundation on a house if you will. I developed a deep understanding about exactly what sex trafficking was. The first alarming fact I learned was in the blog post “Our Officials are Unaware”. I found that the officials here to protect our safety had no idea about the “Trafficking Victims Protection Act”. This act was made to put an end to sex trafficking, yet the law was being brushed away as a wind blows a leaf. Did you know that there are only five shelters in the United States to house women who had been previously been enrolled in sex trafficking. Why is this so outrageous? Because there are 17,500 people trafficked each year in the US. Do the math, that’s 3,500 people per shelter.
My finding took a leap when I found the website “www.captivedaughters.org”. “Captive Daughters” is a non-profit organization committed to ending the exploitative practice of sex trafficking, with a particular focus on girls and women. It was perfect. I had hit the jack pot. Little did I know that only a few months later I would develop a relationship with this organization.
Today, I have become an expert on sex trafficking. I ask myself what I can do to stop sex trafficking. And furthermore, how I can help you help. I answer this debate in my thesis; Child prostitution in America in an under diagnosed epidemic and the first step to treating it is awareness. Currently, I am working on answering this query in my thesis paper. This ten page (minimum) paper may be concerning, yet I am looking forward to it as it will help me prepare to create a major thesis paper in my senior year of college.
I was first introduced to sex trafficking at the age of thirteen. I was watching television and while flipping through channels, I found myself on BBC gazing at children as young as five years old asking sexual tourists to ‘pick them’. I thought this was some sort of joke. Could this really be happening under our noses? How did I not know about this before? Yet most of all, I wondered what was being done to stop this.
In my sophomore year here in high school I was asked the question what I would like to study for the year, something that would hold my attention, something that would possibly change my outlook on life. My mind zoomed back to that documentary set in Cambodia, and the girls, my age, praying for sex. There was no question of what I wanted to learn more about.
Since them I have learned an exponential amount of information about this heinous crime happening around our world, INCLUDING in the United States. Slowly I began to answer the questions I had asked a year before.
My studies began with finding background information, a foundation on a house if you will. I developed a deep understanding about exactly what sex trafficking was. The first alarming fact I learned was in the blog post “Our Officials are Unaware”. I found that the officials here to protect our safety had no idea about the “Trafficking Victims Protection Act”. This act was made to put an end to sex trafficking, yet the law was being brushed away as a wind blows a leaf. Did you know that there are only five shelters in the United States to house women who had been previously been enrolled in sex trafficking. Why is this so outrageous? Because there are 17,500 people trafficked each year in the US. Do the math, that’s 3,500 people per shelter.
My finding took a leap when I found the website “www.captivedaughters.org”. “Captive Daughters” is a non-profit organization committed to ending the exploitative practice of sex trafficking, with a particular focus on girls and women. It was perfect. I had hit the jack pot. Little did I know that only a few months later I would develop a relationship with this organization.
Today, I have become an expert on sex trafficking. I ask myself what I can do to stop sex trafficking. And furthermore, how I can help you help. I answer this debate in my thesis; Child prostitution in America in an under diagnosed epidemic and the first step to treating it is awareness. Currently, I am working on answering this query in my thesis paper. This ten page (minimum) paper may be concerning, yet I am looking forward to it as it will help me prepare to create a major thesis paper in my senior year of college.
